- Trevor Rees-Jones
Trevor Rees-Jones (also known as Trevor Rees; born 1968) is the former bodyguard for Dodi Al-Fayed and was badly injured in the car accident that killed his charge; Diana, Princess of Wales; and chauffeur Henri Paul. Because he suffered a head injury in the crash, Rees-Jones does not recall particulars of the accident. He allegedly survived because he put on the seatbelt. - Steven Seagal
Steven Seagal is a movie star, mor specifically an action movie star. The public has long since stopped believing in the movie star as moral paragon, but an odd residue of affectionate respect clings to action stars, probably because they're men of brawn-over-brain, seemingly incapable of the treachery, duplicity, and calculation associated with intelligence. Action heroes, whatever their personal flaws, benefit more than other movie stars from the mythical figures they portray. - Richard Norton
Richard Norton (born January 6, 1950, in Australia) is a martial artist, action film star, and stuntman. Norton worked as a bodyguard in the entertainment business before pursuing an acting career. His first screen appearance was in the 1980 Chuck Norris film "The Octagon", and to date he has worked on over 70 feature films and television programs. - Chuck Zito
Chuck Zito (born Charles Zito Jr. on March 1, 1953) was a member of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity bodyguard, stuntman and actor. Chuck Zito grew up in The Bronx and New Rochelle, New York, the son of Italian-American parents Charles Zito and Gloria Frangione Zito. He began boxing when he was a teenager, following in his father's footsteps. He competed in several amateur boxing matches, with mixed results. - Ken Lo
Ken Lo Wai-kwong is a Hong Kong stuntman and actor born in Stung Treng, Cambodia on March, [[http://www.brns.com/hkactors/pages/page19.html]. In 1975, he moved from Cambodia to Thailand, then 5 years later, he fled to Hong Kong where he met Jackie Chan and became his bodyguard in 1987. His idol was Bruce Lee which lead him to practice Thai Boxing and Tae Kwon Do. - Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv. Amir is currently serving a life sentence for murder plus 14 years for conspiracy to murder Yitzhak Rabin on different occasions and for injuring Rabin's bodyguard, Yoram Rubin. - Abu Jandal
Abu Jandal was a member of al-Qaeda and former chief bodyguard of Osama bin Laden. He is a Saudi citizen of Yemeni descent. Abu Jandal was arrested by Yemeni authorities in connection with the USS Cole bombing in October 2000, Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York's World Trade Center, Abu Jandal was brought before FBI agent Ali Soufan for questioning in Aden, Yemen. - Tony Anthony
Tony Anthony is a British Christian evangelist. He was born in London of an Italian father and a Chinese mother and raised in Canton, China by his grandparents. His grandfather trained him in Kung Fu and he became three times World Champion ‘master’ in martial arts (1987, 1988, 1989). Then, in his early twenties, Tony worked as an elite bodyguard, traveling the world protecting some of the world's richest, most powerful people. - Ed Parker
Edmund Kealoha Parker was an American martial artist and teacher. He is perhaps most famous as the founder of American Kenpo. Parker was born in Hawaii and raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He began his training in the martial arts at a young age in judo and later boxing. Some time in the 1940s, Ed Parker was first introduced to Kenpo by Frank Chow. After some time Frank Chow introduced Ed Parker to William K. S. Chow. Mr. - Red West
Red West (born 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American actor, film stuntman and songwriter. Born Robert "Bobby" Gene West, he was a close high school friend of rock and roll singer Elvis Presley. An excellent athlete and former U.S. Marine, West played football for his high school and junior college teams and was a boxer in the Golden Gloves championships. In 1955, Red West was the driver for Presley and band members Scotty Moore, Bill Black, … - Rochus Misch
Rochus Jordan Misch was an Oberscharführer in the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler who worked as a courier, bodyguard and telephone operator for Adolf Hitler from 1940 to 1945. Misch was born in Oppeln in the Province of Silesia. As a junior member of Hitler's permanent staff, Misch traveled with Hitler from bunker to bunker throughout the Second World War. On January 16, 1945, following German defeat in the Battle of the Bulge, … - Ward Hill Lamon
Ward Hill Lamon (January 6, 1828 - May 7, 1893) was a personal friend and frequent bodyguard of the American President Abraham Lincoln. Lamon was famously missing the night Lincoln was assassinated, having been sent by Lincoln to Virginia. His association with Lincoln started in the 1850s, when he became a law partner and traveled with Lincoln. The two had a law office in Danville, Illinois up until 1858. - Walter H. Thompson
Detective Inspector Walter Henry Thompson (born 1890, died 1979) was the bodyguard of Winston Churchill for eighteen years between 1921 and 1945, being recalled from semi-retirement running two grocer's shops by a telegram from Churchill on 22 August 1939 reading "Meet me Croydon airport 4.30pm Wednesday." Although at that time Churchill had no official position in government, … - Alexander Korzhakov
Alexander Vasilyevich Korzhakov (born january 31 1950 in Moscow), was a KGB general who served as Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard, confidant, and adviser for 11 years. Member of State Duma at 1997. He was the head of the Presidential Security Service (PSB) in 1993-1996, State Duma deputy, and retired Lieutenant-general. Korzhakov had been Yeltsin's bodyguard since 1985, and on August 18, 1991, he stood next to his boss on top of a tank during Yeltsin's historic speech. - Abid Hamid Mahmud
Lieutenant General Abid Hamid Mahmud was an Iraqi military officer under Saddam Hussein's deposed regime. He began his military career as an non-commissioned officer and rose through the ranks, becoming part of Saddam's personal bodyguard and, finally, his personal secretary. A distant cousin of Saddam, observers regarded Mahmud as being Saddam's right hand man, in constant contact with him and acting as a gatekeeper to access to the leader: he was trusted. - Daniel Ducruet
Daniel Ducruet was the husband of Princess Stéphanie from 1995 until 1996. Ducruet was born in Beausoleil. A muscular, 185 cm athlete and bodybuilder, he worked as a pet shop salesman and fishmonger before being accepted into the Monaco police force as a trainee officer in 1986. Within two years he had been appointed a Palace bodyguard with responsibility for Prince Albert. - David Rodigan
David Rodigan, born 1951 on a military base in Hanover, Germany, is a British radio DJ who also performs as a selector for his sound system. Known for his selections of reggae and dancehall music, he has played on stations including Radio London, Capital 95.8, Kiss 100 London and BFBS Radio 1. Rodigan has clashed established soundsystems like Bodyguard, Killamanjaro (selected by Ricky Trooper), Stone Love, Barry G and Bass Odyssey. - Marianne de Pierres
Marianne de Pierres is an Australian science fiction author. The greater body of her work has seen publication in Australia. As of 2005, her series of novels with the protagonist Parrish Plessis, a postapocalyptic bodyguard and bounty hunter, is being published in the United States through Roc Books. The novels in this series include "Nylon Angel", "Code Noir", and "Crash Deluxe" and have been adapted into a role-playing game. - Dave Semenko
David John "Dave" Semenko (born 12 July, 1957 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a retired hockey player who played for the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, and Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. He was originally selected in 1977 by the Minnesota North Stars of the National Hockey League and the Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association. A frequent fighter, he was known as Wayne Gretzky's bodyguard early in Gretzky's career in Edmonton from 1979 to 1986. - Chris Boykin
Christopher "Big Black" Boykin (b. January 26, 1972 in Wiggins, Mississippi). He is best known for his role in MTV's Rob & Big. - Morris Cohen
Morris Abraham "Two-Gun" Cohen was a London-born Jewish soldier who became aide-de-camp to the Chinese leader Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese army. According to a 1954 biography written by Charles Drage with Cohen's assistance, Morris Cohen was born in London in 1889 to a family that had just arrived from Poland. However, a 1997 revisionist account wrongly speculates<sup>1</sup> that Cohen was actually born into a poor Jewish family in Radzanów, … - Jerome Benton
Jerome Benton is a musical performer, backup dancer and lender of comedic antics to various musical acts. He is the inspiration for today's "hype man". He can be seen in music videos by Janet Jackson and Prince, but he is most known for his association with The Time. Benton is the half brother to Time bassist, Terry Lewis and worked closely with the band behind the scenes in its initial stages. - Moses Blah
Moses Zeh Blah (born April 18, 1947) was named President of Liberia on August 11, 2003, following the resignation of Charles G. Taylor. He served as president for two months, until October 14, 2003, when a UN-backed transitional government, headed by Gyude Bryant, was sworn in. Blah joined with Taylor because of a shared hatred of then-president Samuel Doe, who killed his wife along with hundreds of others in an ethnic-related massacre. - Reiko Takashima
Reiko Takashima (高島礼子 "Takashima Reiko"; born 25 July 1964 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) is a Japanese actress. Active in television series, movies, and commercials, her roles have included ninja in jidaigeki such as Abarembo Shogun and Abare Hasshu Goyo Tabi, the wife Oeyo of the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, Lady Fujitsubo in a special with characters based on The Tale of Genji, a yakuza boss in the "Gokudo no Onna-tachi" films, a lawyer from Okinawa, … - Shawn Eckhardt
Shawn Eric Eckhardt is an American criminal. While employed as skater Tonya Harding's bodyguard in the early 1990s, he conspired with Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and Shane Stant in the planning and execution of the assault on rival skater Nancy Kerrigan on January 6, 1994. Kerrigan was forced to withdraw from the U.S. Figure Skating Championships as a result of the damage done to her knee, but went on to win the silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics. - Emory Hale
Emory Hale (1969 December 13 - 2006 January 28) was a professional wrestler and bodyguard. He made appearances for World Championship Wrestling and the X Wrestling Federation. Emory Hale was brought in to WCW by Jimmy Hart to be the "Next Big Thing" in line for a Main Event program/angle with Hulk Hogan and also managed the big man. During Emory's WCW stint he was in line for somewhat of push which began with WCW running vignettes featuring the big man. - Nur-Pashi Kulayev
Nur-Pashi Kulayev (born 1980), a native of Engenoi, Chechnya, is thought to be the sole survivor of the 32 hostage-takers in the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, although Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev denied the claim, stating that one other escaped. Kulayev was a 24-year-old unemployed carpenter at the time of the attack. His brother Han-Pashi had formerly served as bodyguard for Basayev. - Carlos Lacerda
Carlos Frederico Werneck de Lacerda, an Afro-Brazilian who was the head of Vargas' personal bodyguards. Brazilian Air Force Major Rubens Vaz was killed in the attempt and Lacerda was slightly injured. This sparked a political crisis that culminated with the suicide of Vargas. Lacerda was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies later in 1954 with the most votes of any candidate. He also opposed the government of President Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira. - Johann Rattenhuber
Johann Rattenhuber, also known as Hans Rattenhuber, was a German police and SS Oberführer. He was the head of Adolf Hitler's Reichssicherheitsdienst (RSD) from 1933-1945. Rattenhuber was born in Munich, where he made a career as a police officer. In March 1933 he was appointed head of Hitler's bodyguards, the RSD (not to be confused with the Sicherheitsdienst, or SD), a unit created to provide personal security to members of the Nazi leadership, … - Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi
born September 7, 1956 in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture) is a Japanese musician, and actor. He has produced many hit singles as a singer-songwriter, such as "Junko"(1980), "Tonbo"(1988), "Kanpai"(1988), "Shabondama"(1991) and "Close Your Eyes"(2005). And he has twelve albums which reached number-one at Japanese Oricon album chart. Along with Yosui Inoue and Noriyuki Makihara, he sold over 10 million single records. From 1977 through 2005, Nagabuchi has sold over 21 million records. - Roustam Raza
Roustam Raza, also known as Roustan or Rustam, was Napoleon Bonaparte's famous mamluk bodyguard. Roustan was an Armenian from Tbilisi, in Georgia. In his memoirs Roustam wrote that he was born in Tiflis (an old name of Tbilisi) and his father Rustam Unan was a merchant. Being born in Tbilisi, Roustam was often erroneously considered as Georgian. Roustan was kidnapped when he was a child and sold as a slave in Cairo. - Albert Grajales
Albert Grajales is a top Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do certified instructor under SiGung, Ted Wong. Wong is known to be the purest Jeet Kune Do instructor under the late Bruce Lee. Albert is known to be Wong's closest friend and dedicated student. Grajales was born on 1962 in Brooklyn, New York and at the age of six he traveled to Puerto Rico. His first martial arts instructor was his father, but it was at the age of nine that he started his journey in the martial arts. - Christina Kirkman
Christina Sally Kirkman (born January 30, 1993 in Melrose, Massachusetts) is an American actress and comedian. Kirkman, an only child, attended Winthrop Elementary School from kindergarten to fifth grade. Kirkman entered Nickelodeon's America's Funniest Kid competition and won the highly-coveted spot as a regular performer on "All That". In part of her audition she was asked to do a skit in which she met Jay Leno. - Milan Veruović
Milan Veruoviċ was the bodyguard of former prime minister of Serbia Zoran Đinđić. He was shot in the stomach during the prime minister's assassination. The bullet came from a high power sniper rifle and did large amounts of damage, although he did not lose consciousness. He was head of Djindjic's personal security detail. - Ruslan Labazanov
Ruslan Labazanov (1967 - June 1, 1996) was an infamous criminal boss of the Chechen mafia and former head of a Chechen opposition faction. A member of the Turkxoj teip (clan), Labazanov was born in Kazakhstan in 1967 and was a physical training instructor in the Soviet Red Army and was a martial arts expert. In 1990 he was convicted of murder in Rostov and spent time in jail before escaping in 1991. - Camillo Cibin
Camillo Cibin, Papal bodyguard at the Vatican who retired in 2006 after 58 years of service. At the urging of his parish priest, Cibin and four other young men from his hometown applied and were accepted into the Vatican security services in 1947. He was appointed director more than 40 years ago and was in charge of Vatican security during the Second Vatican Council and the conclaves that elected Popes John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict. - Neddy Smith
Arthur Stanley "Neddy" Smith, (born November 17, 1944), is an Australian criminal. He was born, to an Australian mother and an American serviceman father he never knew, and brought up in Sydney. Smith has been serving a life sentence since 1989 and is presently imprisoned in Lithgow Correctional Centre after being moved from Long Bay Correctional Centre in Sydney, New South Wales, where he spent 14 years of his life. - Luigi Lucheni
Luigi Lucheni was an Italian anarchist who assassinated the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria (commonly referred to as Sisi) in 1898. Lucheni believed in propaganda by the deed, a philosophy advocating spreading beliefs through actions. Born in Paris to a poor family, he worked odd jobs before joining the Italian Army for three and a half years. After a successful stay in the military, he immigrated to Switzerland. - Erwin Ballarta
Erwin Ballarta is a self-defense expert in Pekiti Tirsia Kali and various weapons. Ballarta has taught hand-to-hand combat and weapon tactics to the FBI, the Texas Highway patrol, and various military personnel and has been a bodyguard of George W. Bush and various celebrities. Ballarta is currently a Lieutenant with the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), where he is the Recruit School Coordinator and Defensive Tactics Coordinator for the Training Academy. - Frank Monsalve
Frank Monsalve is a martial arts instructor who resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the head instructor and founder of the Hybrid martial art Hurricane Combat Arts. "Hurricane Combat Arts" was designed for military, executive protection/bodyguard and reality street defense. It is built on the theories of Russian Systema, Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do, Muay Thai, Indonesian Pentjak Silat Serak and American military hand-to-hand combative concepts.
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